Scalable OTDM transmitter with full multicast capability

Author

Baby, Varghese ; Wang, Bing C. ; Xu, Lei ; Glesk, Ivan ; Prucnal, PAul R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

445

Abstract

This study presents a time domain based approach that provides scalable rapidly re-configurable multicast operation with full multicast capability. In this study, the node design is easily achieved by an increase in the number of timeslots of optical time domain division multiplexing (OTDM) channel selector, with a corresponding switching window size at the receiver. A highly scalable series-parallel channel selector has been demonstrated with rapid re-configurability and low loss. Switching window sizes less than 3 ps have been achieved, making more than 100 multicast users at OC-48 data rate feasible.

Keywords

multicast communication; optical fibre networks; optical losses; optical receivers; optical switches; optical transmitters; time division multiplexing; OTDM channel selector; OTDM receiver; multicast capability; node design; optical loss; optical time domain division multiplexing; reconfigurable multicast operation; scalable OTDM transmitter; series-parallel channel selector; switching window; time domain based approach; Arm; Delay; Lattices; Optical fiber networks; Optical pulses; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Pediatrics; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1251900

Filename

1251900